Free Exercise and the Resurgence of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

This article considers the development of protections of the FreeExercise of Religion, initially under the First Amendment, and later, followingCongress’s discontent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Employment Division of Oregonv. Smith, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The article discusses how thisdevelopment resulted in the Court’s controversial split decision in the case of Burwellv. Hobby Lobby in 2014, and considers why commentators take such diverse views of thatcase